Ecumenical Patriarch Euphemios

Ecumenical Patriarch Euphemios (450-515) was the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople from 490 to 496, succeeding Ecumenical Patriarch Fravitas and preceding Ecumenical Patriarch Makedonios II.

Biography
Euphemios was a learned and very virtuous man who worked as a priest in the city of Constantinople (present-day Istanbul, Turkey) and at a hospital in Neapolis (present-day Naples, Italy). In 490 he was elected as the new Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, and he was accused of supporting the Isaurian rebels of the Byzantine Empire during the Isaurian War. He was deposed and exiled to Ancyra in Asia Minor, and Ecumenical Patriarch Makedonios II succeeded him.